 فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل واشدوا الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل واشدوا أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسانين إلى يوم الدين أما بعد أخي بلواتي أخي أخي أريد أن أدرس أشخاص جدا هذه الأشخاص بجميلة فرصة السكولين ومعرفة الناس هو أنه هو الأشخاص أكثر التي الله قلت من أعلى ونحن لا يوجد أبليفة can be said to him أو لا يوجد أبليفة can be advised with greater than being told Allah is looking at him سبحانه وتعالى the reason why I chose to speak about this topic is because of the Muslims maybe those who may be come across as people of knowledge and people of understanding of the religion sometimes forgetting this message which is مراقبة الله that Allah is observing them let alone the general mass who have less understanding of the religion if the people who are meant to be the duaat the people who are calling to the path of Allah upon them is that they take this understanding of مراقبة الله greater than the general mass العلمة محمد الأمين الشنقيطي رحمه الله he said the scholars unanimously agreed upon it is a disagreement amongst all scholars that Allah is the greatest and the greatest and the greatest and the greatest and the greatest and the greatest and the greatest amongst all scholars that Allah has not sent down from high above unto this earth are reminder greater and a wuna bigger than knowing that Allah is observing سبحانه وتعالى and having understanding that Allah has knowledge of everything that you are doing then محمد الأمين الشنقيطي رحمه الله he chose to define what مراقبة means and he said إذا الإنسان أن ربه جل وعلى رقيب عليه عالم بكل ما يخفي وما يعلن مراقبة means that you know and that you observe as a person that all of your movements and all of your doings that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is looking at you He knows every single thing whether it is something that you hide or whether it is something you do in public Allah سبحانه وتعالى He knows Allah سبحانه وتعالى He is observing you سبحانه وتعالى so the person because he knows Allah knows his movements privately or publicly he is consistently worried and concerned العلمة ابن القييم الجوزية when he spoke about what مراقبة meant he said دوام علم العبدي وتيقونه بالطلاع الحق على ظاهره وباطنه فاستدامته لهذا العلم وليقينه المراقبة he said it is that the slave is consistent his knowledge is always consistent the slave's knowledge is consistent on knowing by unwavering conviction سبحانه وتعالى is observing him على ظاهره وباطنه Allah is observing what is inside him and he was in his heart and Allah is observing what you are doing from the outer فاستدامته لهذا العلم وليقينه المراقبة the fact that you are consistent upon that understanding and that knowledge with unwavering conviction that is what يقين is called so يقين means consistency in your knowledge and certainty در الله سبحانه وتعالى is observing you this is what مراقبة means he says وصعبن القيم said والمراقبة هي التعبد باسمه الرقيب والحفظ العليم السميع البصير فمن عقل هذه الأسماء وتعبد بمقتضاها حصلته المراقبة والله أعلم ابن القيم says that مراقبة is you worship Allah with his name الرقيب his name الحفظ his name العليم his name السميع his name البصير الرقيب is the one who is observing you you worshipping Allah on that name الحفظ والله سبحانه وتعالى is protecting he is documenting العليم knowledgeable one السميع the all-hera البصير the allsia فمن عقل هذه الأسماء ابن القيم said anyone who comprehends those names of Allah he understands them what they really mean وتعبد بمقتضاها and he worships Allah based on what those names mean حصلته المراقبة you will then gain the station of مراقبة والله أعلم and Allah knows if you open the Quran today and you read it you will find so many verses that remind you and myself that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is looking over us Allah is observing us my beloved brothers and sisters Allah says in the Quran ولقد خلقنا الإنسان وانا نعلموا مات واسوسوبه نفسه and we know what his نفس يسبس to him we know what your نفس is telling you we know it الله is aware of it سبحانه وتعالى الله knows it before you even do it he knows it سبحانه وتعالى then fear Allah when you're by yourself fear Allah when you're alone fear Allah when you're in that darkness he is سبحانه وتعالى one who knows all of that which you're doing ولقد خلقنا الإنسان وانا نعلموا مات واسوسوبه نفسه ونحن أقرب إليه من حبل الوريد إليه تلق المتلقيان عن right وعن الشمال قاعد ما يلفض من قول إلا لديه رقيب وعتيد and every single thing it will be documented it will be written and the day of judgment والله my beloved brothers and sisters you'll be accounted according to that قال الله وتعالى الله also says this message of مراقبة you find it in all of the places of the Quran either by directly or the Quran is indirectly reminding you of مراقبة الله also says from the verses which are direct وعلموا know or people know أن الله يعلموا that Allah knows what does he know ما في أنفسكم الله knows what's in your nefs before you even do it before even manifest on your limbs الله knows it يعلموا الله knows ما في أنفسكم that which is in your nefs الله knows it فحذروه be cautious be cautious be warned he's one who knows it سبحانه وتعالى also الله تبارك وتعالى he says فلنقصن عليهم بعلم وما كنا غائبين the day of judgment you will be informed of this and you will be told every single thing which you said and you did and you say ما لهذا الكتاب لا يغادر صغيرة ولا كبيرة إلا أحصاها ووجدوا ما عملوا حاضرة ولا يضلم ربك أحداء you will read your book you will see every single statement every action that you did those filthy speeches you put on Facebook those filthy statements that you put on Twitter those filthy statements that you upload on slap chat every single thing will be placed in front of you لا يغادر صغيرة ولا كبيرة الله will not leave a little and a lot everything is there ووجدوا ما عملوا حاضرا you will find everything you said and done in your face in front of you ولا يضلم ربك أحد and Allah does not oppress الله does not oppress and he never will oppress سبحانه وتعالم فلنقصن عليهم بعلم وما كنا غائبين you will be told about what you did that day and Allah was never absent الله was never away from seeing you do that rather you made Allah the worst of ones who observe you you hid that from everybody else you stayed away from everybody else you excluded yourself from everybody else but you didn't do that to Allah سبحانه وتعالم and his angels you allow them to watch you doing those filthy acts and those filthy doings watching those filthy things with the eyes he Allah سبحانه وتعالم gave you the eyes that he wanted you سبحانه وتعالم to use for his remembrance to recite his Quran to obey your parents with to do things that are lawful and that which he loves rather you chose to go against him with what he gave you سبحانه وتعالم الله also say سبحانه وتعالم وما تكون في شأن وما تتلو منه من قرآن ولا تعملون من عمل إلا كنا عليكم شهود إذ تفيدون فيه وما يعزبوا على ربك من مثقال ذرط في الأرض ولا في السماء الله سيستوى سبحانه وتعالم every aphas and every doings that a person comes with الله سبحانه وتعالم is aware of it إلا كنا عليكم شهود إذ تفيدون فيه when you were doing that act الله سبحانه وتعالم was witnessing it was observing it وما يعزبوا على ربك من مثقاله a mustard seed will never be hidden from him سبحانه وتعالم everything he knows رادا أبشري عبد الله my beloved brothers and sisters take this as a glad tidings الله knows it before you even intended to do it he knows whilst you're doing it he knows what you're going to do in the future and he knows that if he allowed you to do this whatever else you could have done he knows it even if it hasn't happened سبحانه وتعالم the poet he said إذا ما خلوت الدهر يوما فلا تقل if you are by yourself excluded and you're not with anybody فلا تقل do not say I'm by myself فلا تقل خلوت ولكن قل علي رقيبه don't say I'm alone I'm away from everybody else but rather say I've been observed I'm never alone ولا تحسبا للله يغفلوا على ربك لا يغفلوا ساعتا and never think to yourself that Allah is heedless never think that to yourself ولا أن ما يخفا عليه يغيبه and don't ever think to yourself whatever you are doing will be hidden from him سبحانه وتعالم never think that to yourself my beloved brothers and sisters I want to tell you of a punishment for a people who thought to themselves assumed that no one is seeing them and they emerged into the sins and dwelled into the sins and they showed no shyness to Allah the severe punishment that they will endure the day of judgment and how Allah will deal with them أرحم الراحمين the most merciful one chose to punish them like this so we can all come to reality and understanding the severity of doing things privately thinking that there is no one observing us there is a hadith that Ibn Majah and others narrated Shaykh Nasser الدين and al-Bani he authenticated it and it is as he graded it عليه رحمة الله this hadith is only authority of Thuban he said that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he says that he knows a group of people from his ummah they are going to come the day of judgment these people are going to come the day of judgment with righteous actions that have filled the earth and they are as big and as large in quantity like the mountain of Tehama it's nothing small they have stacked rewards and good doings and their actions are as big as the mountain of Tehama so clear so apparent their actions فيجعل الله جل وعلم and Allah أرحم الراحمين the most massive one the kindest one he chooses to do what he makes it هباء من ثوراء Allah nullifies it all he takes it all away from this individual Thuban he said يا رسول الله oh messenger of Allah سفهم لنا جلهم لنا oh messenger of Allah describe these people for us tell us their description and what type of people are these individuals and when the Sahabas would ask this question it wasn't just a question for the moment so they can just pass time it was a question that meant and it had a goal for them and what was that my beloved brothers and sisters they wanted to stay away from whatever it was that was leading these individuals into the Hellfire or that was bringing them destruction or that was nullifying their righteous actions the Sahabas they wanted to stay away from that path so they said oh messenger of Allah Thuban said يا رسول الله سفهم لنا describe these people for us how have these people earned how did it happen to them that their righteous actions get nullified all of it the reason why Thuban asked this question is because at the beginning of the Hadith the prophet SAW he said من أمتي لأعلمنا أقواما من أمتي I know a group of people from my ummah and the ummah here the prophet is referring to is أمتي الإجابة and not أمتي الدعوة أمتي الإجابة are the ones who have accepted their message of Islam the believers so the prophet is referring to believers because there is another Rewire that says when the Sahabas asked يا رسول الله who are they the prophet SAW responded by saying they are your brothers هم إخوانكم they are your brothers يصلون they pray the way you guys pray و يصومون and they fast كما تصومون the way you fast و لهم الحظم للليل and at night time when everybody else is sleeping they are people who stand up and they pray at night أمتي الإجابة أو you who have chosen to sing behind closed doors and to commit the crime and to watch filthy videos and listen to filthy music remember this you don't even pray you don't even fast the month of Ramadan if it comes some of you you don't even pray your 5 daily prayers these individuals they've come with righteous actions as large and as great as the mountain of Tehama لهم الحظم للليل and they pray at night they are slaves who come with righteous actions but the problem here is ولكنهم إذا خلوا بمحارم الله تهكوها the problem with these individuals is not the fact that they came with righteous actions is because when they were by themselves when there was no one looking at them they listened to things that Allah prohibited they watched that which they did things that Allah prohibited they did things that Allah prohibited so because of that ولكنهم إذا خلوا بمحارم الله تهكوها when they are by themselves when no one can see them they forget that Allah is الرقيب الحفظ العليم السميع البصير they forgot he has those they forgot he has those attributes and that those are his names and because they chose to strip the curtain between them الله تبارك وتعالى أبو بكر رضي الله تعالى عنه a noble companion he said I am shy I am shy to do وصل standing up so I am not seen my aura is not shown this is the type of people they were they were shy to expose themselves they were shy publicly and they were shy privately they would not go against Allah's command how can your eyes find joy in watching things that Allah has prohibited how can your ears enjoy that which Allah has prohibited سبحانه وتعالى a believer's nefs does not allow him to enjoy these things his heart does not allow it his eyes do not allow it and his ears do not allow it because it's full with the remembrance الله تبارك وتعالى ولكنهم إذا خلوا بمحاري من الله تهكوها but when they are by themselves they fulfill the sins my beloved brothers and sisters the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام he told us in a hadith which Bukhari and Muslim both narrated brothers and sisters listen listen this is your this is in it your salvation the questions that you always ask looking for answers here it is من فيه رسول الله from the tongue and the mouth of the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام الذي لا ينتقوا عن الهوائن هو إلا وح ينوح the one who does not speak from his own whims and desires rather every single thing he says it is from a revelation high above from الله تبارك وتعالى ولا ينبئك مثل خبير and no one will inform you the way you need things better than Allah and his messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم the messenger told us سبعة يوضلهم الله في ظله يوم لا ظل إلا ظله seven type of people Allah is going to give them a shade the day when there is no shade the day when the sun is so close people are sweating the sweat turns into a river some people are drowning in it some people it is up to their throats some people up to their belly buttons and some to their knees and some people are drowned the sun has been brought close destruction, pain and agony is what the people are suffering from but there are seven types of people Allah chooses to give them a shade from this sun a creation of his that is going to destroy his other creation the human beings but there are seven types of people who get away they get a shade that day from those seven my beloved brothers and sisters is and this is the bayt al qasid this is the one I intend which is شابون a young star نشأ في عبادة ربه جل وعلا a young youth who grew up who nurtured himself on the worshipping of Allah the consistent worship of Allah is what he grew up on he is consistently in worship of Allah when he is sitting down alone he doesn't forget to do his أذكار when he is in public he wants to benefit he loves خير he is a person who benefits his time with عبادة and he stays away from the things that Allah has prohibited شابون نشأ في عبادة ربه جل وعلا he grew up he nurtured himself in the worship of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and also from the seven my beloved brothers and sisters is what it is ورجلون أيمان قلبه معلق في المساجد أيمان whose heart is connected to the مسجد whenever you go to the مسجد you see always that uncle in the مسجد who is praying who remembers Allah سبحانه وتعالى but the one I want from this شابون نشأ في عبادة ربه جل وعلا but there is also another one that needs to be pointed out which also comes into the topic that we are speaking about which is ورجلون أيمان طلبت مرأة a woman requested from him حرام a woman called him for zina this woman she is not an ordinary woman ذات منصب وجمال she is a woman of status so she is not a prostitute where you may reject her because you think she has illnesses HIV or AIDS and you say get away from me she is a woman of lineage reputation she is a famous artist مثلا or she is a daughter of a prince or a king وجمال and she is beautiful in other words there is no worldly reason preventing you to fulfill your desires with her the only purpose you rejected her was what لله الله سبحانه وتعالى if it was reputation and status and position this woman has it she is respected in the community or fathers respected in the community she has a status and a rank and she is beautiful your nefs is inclined to her but you reject her my beloved brothers and sisters the woman came to this man and he is rejecting her not him running after her it is not him saying to her let's commit zina ورجلون أيمان طلبتهم رأة طلبتهم she asked of him امرأة ذاته منصيب وجمال ابن القيم said after he bought these seven types of people who are going to have the shade the day of judgment he said I looked at each and every one of them and I found one thing that which they have in common all seven of them all seven types of those and it's seven all having common ابن القيم said that they imprisoned their shahwa they govern their shahwa they govern their desires they had control over it they fulfilled it in everything Allah made lawful all seven of them that is what made them prosperous as ابن القيم said أبو علي الدقاق he said من ملك شهوته في حال شبابه صياره الله ملكا في حال كهولته كيوسف عليه السلام anybody who gets control over his desires when he is young when he is a youth he makes sure that he protects his shahwa privately and publicly he does not fulfill his shahwa in zina he does not fulfill his shahwa in self enjoyment he doesn't himself by fulfilling it in that which Allah set him and his messenger which is to fast or to get married he protects himself what will happen for him سياره الله ملكا الله is going to make him a leader when في حال كهولته when he ages when he reaches kuhola which is the age where his beard comes out and his beard is black it's not white yet at that time it is 40 to the age of 50 the person he will become a leader كيوسف عليه السلام like نبي الله يوسف الله سلبه إنه من يتقي ويصبر فإن الله لا يضع أجر المحسينين anyone who comes with taqwa and he comes with patience for verily Allah does not forsake the righteous actions of the righteous ones نبي الله يوسف came with taqwa and he came with sabr from the woman who wanted to come with him الله made him a leader نبي الله يوسف became a leader ابن القيمسا سمعت الشيخنا يقول ابن القيمسا I heard my sheikh say referring to ibnutemia جهاد النفس والهواء أعظم من جهاد الكفار والمنافقين جهاد النفس is greater and it is bigger than the jihad with the كفار and the منافقين فإنه لا يقدر على جهادهم because there is no one who can fight with the disbelievers in the hypocrite unless حتى يجاهد نفسه وهوه أولا unless he fights with his own whims and desires first سفيان ابن عيينة سفيان الثوري سفيان الثوري رحمه الله he said أعظم الناس شجاعة the most courageous person is من يخالف هواء who the one who opposes his desires who goes against his desires that is the most courageous person that is the bravest person do you want to be a brave person do you want to be a courageous person then prove it to us by going against your desires then and only then are you a brave person but a person who becomes a slave who becomes a slave for his desires claiming that he is a leader or claiming that he is a brave person and courageous your own nafs has you as a slave I remember one time I saw a a branch manager from Tesco asking for money while I was standing at a bank as I was standing at 8 am and she told me that if I came on Monday it was on a Friday night or on a Saturday night one of the two that if I come to her on Monday in Tesco she is going to give me back my money and she is drunk she is a branch manager she has become imprisoned for her own desires what is the leadership benefit to her and the truth is أعظم الناس الشجاعة and the most courageous person is من يخالفوا هواهو the one who goes against his desires I'm going to bring three stories to show you my beloved brothers and sisters the power and the strength and the quwa of knowing that Allah is observing you take the story of مبارك ابن وضح الحنظلي the father of Abdullah ibn Mubarak مبارك ابن وضح he used to have a master which he worked for he was a slave and his master one time asked him to go get him a promo granite he said go get me the most juiciest the most tastiest promo granite in the garden so he went to get him one so he got it for him and when the master had bit the promo granite he realized that it wasn't it wasn't what he requested he requested for one that was juicy and good so he said to Mubarak ابن وضح الحنظلي did I not order you to bring me a tasty promo granite so Mubarak responded by saying all those years I worked in this garden I've never eaten a fruit that fell from a tree so I wouldn't know which of those tastes nice so the master was gobsmacked and it was mind-boggled with what the answer Mubarak gave so he went and asked the jira and the neighbors and the people in the local the community about this individual مبارك ابن وضح الحنظلي and they told him he is so this man he's a man who saved God's tongue a man who saved God's private part and his stomach nothing will go into the haram he watches what he says and he prevents his desires not known to fulfill his desires with women when the master realized this that he had a noble person in front of him he came back and Mubarak said I'm going to marry my daughter who do you advise me to marry and he said to him the Christians and the Jews they married their daughters off based on dunya based on money based on reputation but he said the people of Taqwan they married their daughters off based on religion Mubarak when he said that the master said I see one in front of me and he married his daughter to Mubarak Mubarak gave birth to who is the great noble Imam who is who is a man of knowledge also the story of the shepherd with who came by and he asked him he asked him if he could he asked him if he could give them one of the sheeps or one of the goats and Abdullah Mubarak Abdullah Mubarak when he asked the shepherd said to him I can't the master hasn't given me permission for that so Abdullah Mubarak said then say to him the master when he asks you where did that sheep go that a wolf ate it then the ra'ee responded and he spoke to Abdullah Mubarak Abdullah Mubarak when he said to him where does Allah stand in this where does Allah who is Subhanahu و تعالى stand in this Abdullah Mubarak Mubarak he was what he was a Sahib of Bustan he was a Harith of Bustan he was a God he used to look after and protect the garden his master and this man Abdullah Mubarak is talking to his a shepherd then it went to the houses of the shepherds and into the households of who the of the those who guard the gardens and parks you see when a nation their ra'ee is like this and their Harith I like this is when Allah gives them success and prosperity all of these two stories what do they have in common Mubarak no one would have ever known if he took a foot from the garden but he chose not to he chose not to why the ra'ee the ra'ee he gave Abdullah but what prevented him مراقبة الله and the three men three men who were before you and entered the garden and they were shocked and they said that they will not come to you unless you pray to Allah the three men went into the cave what was their story each and every one of them their story was that مراقبة الله is what prevented them from fulfilling their desires and look how it helped them this act of theirs it helped them by taking them out of the out of the cave which they fell into the شاعر he said the poet he said إذا ما خلو تبريبتهم في ظلمتهم وَنَّفْسُ دَاعِيَةٌ إِلَطْ عِسْيَانِي when you are in a dark place and your nafs is calling you to fulfill his desires it's calling you to do haram فاستح من نظر إله فاستح يمن نظر إله وقلها be shy of Allah's observation over you and say to your nafs يا نفسي إن الذي خلق الظلام يا راني the one who created the darkness they can see me say this to your nafs also another poet he said تفنى لدائد من مننا لصفوتها من الحرام ويبقى الإثم والعرو تبقى عواقب سوئم في مغبتها لا خير في لدت من بعدها النار لا خير في لدت من بعدها النار the reality of is the desires that you fulfilled and the haram which you have done has not really lasted for long it is a desire where a sin was documented from it and it's a desire where the destruction for it is a very long lasting destruction so there's no beauty in a desire that you fulfilled that is going to bring you the hellfire to be your boat anything which I have said that was wrong is from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إلي